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...point because of enlistee shortages [Jan. 17]. But there's another reason. Even though the U.S. has been virtually at war since 9/11, the Pentagon's civilian leadership has resisted increasing the number of the active-duty Army forces. Why? Because it's cheaper to use Guard and Reserve troops. The Department of Defense does not have to provide housing, medical care and base facilities for the families of reservists as it does with active-duty troops. The shortage of regular troops is not an accident; it is a conscious decision to save money. I have served in Iraq...
...obligations in Iraq, and the administration should avoid the tempting opportunity to quickly declare “victory” and move on—something the president has had a penchant for in the past. At times like this, the inevitable call for significant troop withdrawals is heard, yet this would be precisely the wrong move. We are starting to make headway in the daunting task of establishing a functional democracy; what Iraq most needs now is increased stability so that the Iraqi people witness the real and definite benefits of democracy come to fruition. Much remains...
...call for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal had been an election promise shared by some of the major contenders in Iraq's election until about a week ago. This week, however, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi made clear that it would be reckless to call for U.S. troops to leave before Iraqi forces were ready to fight the insurgency. Now, Knight Ridder's Hannah Allam reports that the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance may now be retreating from its own campaign promise to call for U.S. withdrawal, adding a similar qualifier to the one touted by Allawi. She speculates that...
...home. A range of polls show almost half of Americans support a drawdown of U.S. forces after the Iraqi election. And despite the increasing potency of the insurgents and the inadequacy of U.S.-trained Iraqi forces to deal with them, only 4% of Americans believe that more U.S. troops should be sent to Iraq, according to a Los Angeles Times poll. For now, however, there's no timetable for reducing their ranks. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told TIME that "it's foolish to predict numbers and how much [the U.S. troop presence] will go down. It depends...
...position is that a timetable for troop withdrawal is out of the question. That, at any rate, is what top U.S. officials told an influential Sunni clerical group in early January after the imams said they would consider calling off their boycott of the vote in return for a pullout schedule. But the Pentagon is accelerating plans to embed U.S. military advisers with Iraqi security forces in hopes of improving their combat capabilities so that they can take over for U.S. troops. "The most important goal is to get the Iraqis into the fight, not to get our numbers down...